Tweet This is kinda long for a YouTube video, but totally worth the time to watch it. I think it is time we started calling for real change and taking responsibility for being the richest and often, most wasteful country in the world. Check out the website; there are some pretty cool links and information on there too.
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Laughter
Tweet Life is so much more fun when you actually enjoy today! This is the lesson I am learning these days. When you stop worrying and planning for the future and simply enjoy today, life is a whole lot more fun. Once I decided to stop worrying about the next step and just trust God, I started enjoying teaching more and enjoying the island more. Not all the time, not every minute, but in general, life is good. I spent my evening with four of the other teachers..we ordered pizza, watched a movie, and then preceded to spend the rest of the night laughing. I have not laughed that hard…
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James 1:27
Tweet James 1:27 “ Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”This is one of my favorite verses. I think so often we get caught up in our own definitions of religion, we forget what God’s definition is. After all, He rescued us and adopted us into His family, should it surprise us that He values caring for orphans? I would argue that it should not, but that so often it does. Or perhaps surprise is the wrong word. Perhaps we just ignore it. I watched a dvd…
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Relational Tithe
Tweet I have been really convicted this past year about my finances. God has blessed me with so much and I have just seen ways that I waste that. Along with that, I have been doing a lot of studying on tithing in the Bible and our finances and how they should be used. This brought me to exploring other ways to tithe. I heard about an organization called Relational Tithe via a book I was reading. After many months of putting it off, I finally visited their website. Instantly I was hooked. I found a group of believers working to create a distributive economy in which everyone has what…
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Solitude
Tweet Dear friends, I head off to Bali tomorrow. I am so very excited for my trip and the adventures it will bring. Something about traveling to a new place just makes me quiver with excitement!! As part of my journey, I am leaving behind almost all of my attachments for a week. No blog, no Twitter, no Facebook, no e-mail. Life has thrown some curveballs my way lately and I have some VERY big decisions to make about the future. I sit here having absolutely NO idea what to do. So I figured since I have a week planned of being all alone in a foreign land, I might…
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Pondering This
Tweet Among us English-speaking peoples especially do the praises of poverty need once more to be boldly sung. We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient realization of poverty could have meant; the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any…
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Lyrics
Tweet I will never harm you. Open your heart, I have loved you from the start. (Song for You by Jenny and Tyler) Those words hit me today. I was listening to the song they came from and that line is repeated ten times. I think the songwriters knew I needed to hear that. Lately, I have sorta felt like life is falling apart and I don’t know which way is up. As I try to muddle through big decisions with little information, I am coming to the realization that the core of my struggle is an inability to trust. I don’t trust God or myself. I don’t trust that…
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One Semester Down
Tweet Its official! I have finished my first semester of teaching. It seriously seems like just yesterday I was getting off the plane for the very first time, and yet before I know it I will be getting back on that plane. It has been a crazy few months and I never thought this is where I would be right now. I can’t quite wrap my head around the fact that its Christmastime as it is 85 and sunny outside. Nor can I believe that I am almost halfway through my year here in Saipan. Teaching teaches you a lot. I think it goes for most careers working with students-they…
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Check That Off My List!
Tweet Hell of the Marianas-Toughest Bike Race in Micronesia. Done and Done! Andrea and I finished the race in five hours and 20 minutes. 62 miles total, 31 miles each up and down almost every hill on my small island. We made our first cutoff time with 30 minutes to spare. Andrea finished the first leg in a little over an hour and I finished my second leg in under two hours. I was so excited! I had a very tough leg and rode it faster than I had at any point during training. At that point, it was all smooth sailing. Andrea finished the third leg in under two…
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If You Had Unlimited Resources, What Would You Give This Christmas?
Tweet If You Had Unlimited Resources, What Would You Give This Christmas? I posed this question to my 6th-8th grade computer classes and thought I would post their answers as well as ask for yours. -Toys for kids that can’t afford them -Money to a person in Saipan whose house just burned down -Houses and food for homeless people -Money for moneyless -Peace for North and South Korea -Money to the poor in Saipan -Snow for N. Africa -Food for Africa -Ice to the North Pole -Water to Africa -World Peace -Joy -I will start green factories -A mansion -To everyone who doesn’t have a house, a big house -A…